Patent GB-913087-A (GB)
Title: Data recording device
IPC: G07C3/12
Filed: 1960-09-15
Abstract: 913,087. Recording running-time, and output of machines. HANCOCK TELECONTROL CORPORATION. Sept. 15, 1960 [Sept. 17, 1959], No. 31775/60. Class 106 (4). A system for recording registered data from a plurality of data storage groups, each group containing a number of stores responding to the registers in that group, comprises relays for connecting the stores of the first group to recording- apparatus and relays responsive to completion of recording from the first group for connecting the stores of the second group to the recording-apparatus. The system may be used to record the data registered at a central station relating to the production and idle time of, and the number of parts produced and balance of parts to be produced by a plurality of machines as described in Specification 851,421. A store comprising a wiper arm moving over ten contacts is associated with each wheel of each register of the group associated with each machine and similar stores are provided for " pay code " and " labour type " in each group. All the stores for one machine are on a master panel corresponding to that machine. When several employees can work on a machine a group panel is associated with the master panel. A group panel has six employee identity receptacles, six receptacles for carring precoded data relating to the participating pay - rate of each employee and six relating to a differential pay rate. Each receptacle is connected to ten emitter buses 157, Fig. 4, of the recording apparatus as are also ten contacts of each of the stores. A lock-out relay LR is provided in each master panel which is de-energized upon closure of a control switch 112 to permit accumulation of data from the machine. Readout, or transmittal of information to the recording apparatus, may be instituted for each master panel either individually or on an automatic sequential basis such as at the end of each shift. A read-out enabling relay ER, Fig. 3, and a readout completion relay CR, Fig. 4, are provided for each master panel, and initiation of the cycle for an individual panel causes energization of the relay ER which in turn connects the stores in that panel to the recording apparatus 149, Fig. 4, by energization of readout relays RDR1, RDR2. During this time, the registers are disconnected from the machine by relay RDR2 making the circuit of relay LR at contacts 188. If automatic readout of all activated panels is desired, the relays ER of all activated panels will be simultaneously energized at the beginning of the cycle. As the readout portion of a panel cycle is completed, the relay CR is energized which de-energizes relay ER and permits read-out to be immediately initiated in the next activated panel. Relay CR also causes operation of reset motor M, Fig. 3, for the registers in that panel and energization of reset relay RR which de-energizes relay CR but maintains the locked-out condition of the registers until their resetting has been completed, whereafter relay RR is de-energized, de-energizing relay LR and reconnecting the registers to the machine.  Should a master panel be provided with a group panel a first punched card 151 will be produced corresponding to the master panel with proper indication on the card that it represents a group rather than an individual employee. Additional cards are then punched recording the same data and in addition data relating to the individual employee's identification and pay rate. For this purpose, the group panel is provided with a readout enabling relay and a readout completion relay for each employee in the group. The readout enabling relays which have employee plugs inserted in their corresponding receptacles in the group panel are energized simultaneously with the master panel readout enabling relay, and after the master card is completed, the information for each of these employees, together with the master panel information, will be connected to the recording apparatus. A reset motor cut-out relay is also provided in the group panel and is energized at the same time as the readout enabling relays to prevent resetting of the master panel registers until all the group readout enabling relays have been de-energized. Completion of the group panel recording will also permit readout to begin in the next master panel at the central station. Further interlock arrangements include an interlocking circuit among the manually operable switches provided for the master panels when it is desired to readout and record data from an individual panel at irregular intervals in order to prevent successive recording of panel information in a direction opposite to that which is used for the automatic sequential recording and to prevent interruption of readout for an individual panel which might otherwise occur.